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# Political and Social Satire in Judge Magazine This page contains three pieces of light satirical humor typical of Judge magazine's approach to everyday American life: **"How the Rose Turned Red"** is a whimsical poem illustrated with a nature fable—a glow-worm courts a white rose, and the rose blushes red from his attention. It's gentle romantic humor with no political intent. **"Visitors at Our House"** is the main satirical piece. The author describes showing a rented house to prospective tenants, encountering increasingly absurd characters: a stern minister, a gambling banker seeking a faro bank location, and an Irish immigrant woman obsessed with having a proper *boudoir*. The satire mocks social pretension (the woman's malapropisms and class aspirations) and immigrant stereotypes common to the era. The humor relies on caricature and dialect comedy popular in 1880s-90s publications. **"Behind the Scenes"** references theatrical life, likely satirizing backstage chaos or family disruptions related to performance. The content reflects period attitudes toward immigrants and class differences without addressing specific political events.
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BEHIND THE SCENES. Auful terror of Mrs. Metimns’s yonngest kid wh HOW THE ROSE TURNED RED. A wate rose grew on a tall rose tres And the glow-worm rivaled t But the glow-w While the fair one s! And t f the bew bis own faint light na summer's night, » boo in the morning ‘The glow-worm woood till the stars grew pa Bat the rose slept on while he told bis tale The boo buzzed merrily all day long, And the fair rose flushed, as «he h With the joy of a tend DAVID a. sham: Visitors at Our House. BY FE. TRS EYER Ove house is to let Our landlord in regard to the payment of the re pay it at the expiration of every ten years, while be held that the ducats shonkd be on deck the first of every month. Therefore, ge him, we will volantarily move upon the first of May It is always well to do havi tratti There is a bill on the outside of our hoase which says that it is to let, and that people desirous of becoming its proud and happy occupants must inquire within. It is paralyzing to see how many people appear to want our house, Tt seems to me that half of New York hi see it already—with Brooklyn and Canarsi bean from All sorts of people have called, from a millionaire’s who came in a carriage, to a well-levelopes} speci- n of the spring tramp, who examined every room, Hy; gazed at the back-yard with great interest found fault because the parlor was not large enous’ asked the dimensions of the cellar, and finally wound up with a request for cold victuals The following experience—Just the experience of an hour or #0 yeste ill show what a bully time you have while “showing ” a house, nd on} a little falling out t, we wanting to favor if you can, and th s your furniture placed apon the sidewalk impedes called to yet to be wif is left alo tm of Joy, in the property-room, while her ma, the Fairy is mashing on the stage. The white first comer waa ke hoker and & ministeri located him as a pulpit-poun 1, lank a + Good-afternoon, my like to casually anrvey this ry + With ple * said I 1 took nd. He was very silent Only one oF two ques Finally we re nis did he ask, 41 to the hall. ot at his taciturnity how he like the dwellin; “Very well,” he replies Lasked him n suddenly, first look- ound to see that we wer he blurted out: Ta 7" T replied, greatly astounded at the sudden ation in his style of speech. Nd gull let ua ran a bank here?” do you desire to run 7” pn’t you drop ? Ne “Why, a game, of course. tain of the precinet, rent ain't it on the dead quiet.” I'm solid with the ea He was a gambler, looking k. How appearances will oft T told him that db xentleman was Soperint | Right Bower of the Society for the Suppres Everything, Deacon of the Church of the Holy Hi pme, ant would therefore doubtless reat the house o-bank, If eno faro- ent of a gambler, as he “Sorry you a card of a friend of mine | who runs day-game down in Ann street ter.” My next caller was a lady. She was dressed up in a ft ration of the current mode, and her diamonds—Lord, they made | her look like a pawn-shop window ont for a bolid: “Is this the masther av the house ?" asked she, with a soft Milesian patois. See you T said 1 guessed 0, as my w | vantrgirl had gc tw the are psitively all 2 “Will yeh L said + Of cou | ing cuss that ¢ 1 look over the bouss if she wanted to, Daring the coarse of our prowl up-stairs stairs she told e wife of a gentle hired fame, fortu wonld not have suit haven't a Lowdoirin con “Shure, I'm s y unless Tam in a tomtoir, house with a Loudoir, don't know, unless somebody y grief, and explal my way, tt bondoi And ye ain't | “Pat is s0 fond me luk over the urse,” for 0 eorty. house we even got an esplanad I sorrowfully confesse put anywhere. bye !” and off sh Another Ia was endearing creatui milies oceu that the umes, abode Mr, Jones a black eye; thi like a luna cause it sm there was a ca! welling. ‘Then she left their house to let Twill wag ed strong ocular ev thint-story lar. My next ens! What do I see earter, exens Never judy action at his bedside to six persons, \ceidenta, Hanae knocked y cal s professional. Professional house-inspector, 0 That is their eo They hire a honset front ing in the second tloor back. Thin 1 will have to go somewheres else. went, on re purpose pying the purpo: w side of five minutes s! Smiths’ house was in terrible on was! at t and she never was 80 glad to any house in her life as she was ont of R She went across the way to Gi ntel goes the bell as I write. I will cautiously reconnoiter through the blinds Six women and two men, a whole fa .ee the house.” me for t of a mai many a man looks beavenwanl to avoid an avalanche of snow from some roof, hant fo Switzerland last summer, were overpowered by fatal ‘Aman might just as well stay at home, (Where she got the wont 1 who work a re was out and our ser~ funeral of her cousin who dies there in the hunse 2” was her house 7 Tam the most accommodat or under it, or all bro in one room all of her 1 Mrs, Met thion wid the place in Tean niver darn od that if F bad had have been covered with an esplanade?” went on a that no esplanades lurked Goot. while T clutched for breath. it temporarily ext of those lovely, ular route of houses: of prying into the affairs of ell, they will, just about the ts produced, or Wig had told me that th that in th ‘ont of binson’s, be and she bet lollar piece (gilling w d them there tha tack-ham s and a serew-driver ins ier lyin she cv nily party, come his week! n's good intentions by his gets on bis ku ved the icy mountains of and meet death climbing icy sidewalks. comicbooks.com